Yes, you read that right! For a limited time only Microsoft is offering ANY and ALL of their Xbox Live Subscribers the chance to upgrade from the "Xbox Silver" subscription to a full fledged "Xbox Gold" membership for only $1.00! That's right, a bona fide 1-Month of Gold for one buck, that's an $8 dollar value for the same price of a Whopper Jr. w/o cheese! And in case you're wondering yes, it's a FULL MEMBERSHIP meaning for just one smackaroo you get EVERYTHING that comes with the subcription; online multiplayer modes, exclusive downloads and demos and much more!

I don't really like giving my credit card info to anything! Especially when they may charge you before the deadline.

The main draw of this is to get people to put their credit card info in! And the same will probably happen with the upcoming family membership plan. They want dear old dad to put that number in while the wife and kids go nuts buying stuff!

I find that credit card pulling, instant auto-renew pretty sleazy. Can't there be just some honest-to-goodness $1 try out periods with maybe a company requesting for your contact info to followup after? Is that such a far out concept?

Dude, you can turn the auto-renewal off. Stop complaining when there is a solution. You're like the people that complain about jerks on Xbox Live annoying you when you can easily mute them, yet you complain anyway lol .

"HOWEVER, you had better mark that 30-Days from now on your calendar, because after the your 1-Month runs up (at 12 AM), Microsoft will AUTOMATICALLY bill your card for a SECOND MONTH at the full price value of $8 and change. The only way to avoid this is by canceling your subscription BEFORE the 1-Month has expired. "

yeah just give them you credit card number and your personal information the same deal was on the European store there was a note at the bottom "i can see the article poster is trying to delete it" after you subscribe they well automatically renew your subscription after the one month for the full price

Its a nightmare to cancel, the website takes you through a continuous loop and you think youve done it but the details have not been ammended. It took me two weeks to cancel when I had mine and in that time they had withdrawn another months fees from my card even though a rang up and told them I had given the console away and didnt have access to live. Total rippoff company who only cares for your cash.

Wow, just went to Xbox.com and well, that site is so low on activity I was shocked. I thought there would be way more activity on the forums than that.

I mean, the halo forums have maybe 10k posts in total and that's the most popular game on the 360. Dont 360 fans like to discuss about their gaming and 360 games? I thought the community loved talking with their friends on X-game chat that it's THE most valued feature on the system but the website is almost dead.

Comparing it with Playstation.com forums is total night and day. Heck Demon Souls a new IP has over 35k posts. Games like FF, KZ3, Gow3 etc etc have over 300k and HOME community and general discussions are all well above 500k even into the million posts.

... I don't think 360 games enjoy the experiences they get on the 360 as much as they say they do cause if they did, they would want to talk a lot more about their games.

It's the same thing on forums for almost all gaming sites. Go look, the activity on PS3 forums are way beyond those on the 360 forums on UGN, Gametrailers, Gamespot, etc etc Why is that?

and no MODs, this is not "trolling", it's a comment about an observation from the poster so just stop it with your 5day bann BS cause someone stated the obvious about a percieved negative with any console. We're here to discuss and talk not make nicey nicey and drink tea with the frikgen Queen :/

Just let it expire. Trust me...they take you off line right away...lol. I would never sign up with a credit card, not unless there office was down the street from my house.

I agree with the general feeling here...complete scam. It's like anywhere else, just sign the dotted line and they think they got you for life. Everything these days is direct payment right from the bank. Try to get money back when they over bill you for something...I'm talking insurance, credit card payments...whatever...You spend days talking to ten different people trying to say it's your fault somehow...BUYER BEWARE.

BTW...you Sony kids better pay attention. Your beloved Sony is well on it's way down the same path. Watch how they are gonna follow M$ lead on this. You can expect the " FREE " on line days are number. First it's a couple bucks a month for the Supreme package, then it's on line only if your a supreme user BUT if your not, you still can download demo's and BUY Sony merchandise...it has already started. Nintendo has said they are looking to charge for on line as well. Can you believe that!!!

They all think gamers are like crackheads...addicted and will pay anything. The term evildoers was never more appropriate.

ayy chubear u wnana know why we dont discuss shit on the websites cuz we can really easy by talkin to each other while we play fun as games that we dont need to leave the xbox for. wich ur doin right now u not playin ps3 right now n u hatin about xbox users what u need to do it buy yo self n xbox right now play it play gears play halo play crackdown u wont ever be back on a playstation thats wht happend to me

there losing a lot of gold members in europe,theres no point paying for it when you have psn and people like me with 50mb connections,remember all sony first party games are dedicated servers, where microsofts biggest franchises are not it asked the question why am i paying.i mean you have to pay for face book and lots of nonsense like that,why not add a browser like the ps3 you got the whole net to explore.sounds like its happenig in the US as well now

Does Uncharted 2 use dedicated servers? I'm not too sure, don't get me wrong the game rocks, a great third person multiplayer and one of the better singleplayers but I don't believe it uses dedicated servers.

You can HAVE dedicated servers on Xbox live but it's so much hassle unless your Activision or EA it's really difficult, EA games use dedicated servers on XBOX LIVE

Which is the better service? I can't tell you that, which service does the majority of your friends play? That's the best service for you.

Don't give them your credit card information. One of the hardest things I've ever done is get Microsoft to remove credit card billing information from my Xbox Live account. Just stick with the cards. There's pretty much always someone offering them for around $30 for a year.

I used the gold features for 30 or 40 hrs last year. I think I can do without and save the $50.00 bucks to put towards a PS3. FU M$!! 1 Decent SEGA exclusive (VOOT) in 3 years. This years E3 pretty much totally designed to steal Nintendo's market share, while hardcore gamers get 3 or 4 tired franchises. Sorry, you lost me.

On my 360 that are online compatible. For instance Gears Of war 1/2 Ghost Recon 1/2 and other games I love to play online, yet ive not had an online subscription since the day I bought this console, why? - Well it's not worth it, no sorry, worth it isnt the right wording. It's robbery! I pay for an internet subscription and that is it. If your paying for this, your paying twice. If your aware of this and yet you still buy it, your an idiot! Plain and simple. I seen this recently and even though I love my games and I loved playing them online, I aint even going to pay that, as its the principle of it.

This is an advertising, not a news, not a article, nothing to do here....

More and more people are canceling their live subscription, it looks like Microsoft is doing everything to get some money back without any success if we consider that they make those offers from severals months now.... An undeniable fact that more people are coming in mass to the ps3 and his free on-line gaming community. Too bad for you Microsoft, you greediness will cost you millions of dollars! XD